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Update to Label Sphere

I've finally had some free time to work on the Label Sphere. The new version should correctly color the labels according to your blog's color scheme on Chrome, Firefox, and IE 8. The new version has not been added to the Blogger gallery yet, but when it does get added I will post an update. To use the new version, add a new gadget to your blog, select "Add your own" and use the following URL

Came across the label sphere by accident and love it. Brilliant idea and work. Only issue is I cannot get it to work at all. I can add it either from the widgets menu (not sure if latest version) or via add your own using the latest url, either way nothing is displayed except for the title. In the set up, the preview works fine but I get nothing on my blogger site at all apart from the title? I use Chrome and Firefox (latest versions) and same thing with both. Any suggestions?

@mensnet founder I didn't see it on your site so I couldn't check for error messages. Next time you add the label sphere could you see if there are any javascript error messages in your browser's console?

I need to enlarge the area (increase height) in which the label tags float. The Blogger Gadget control allows changing [height], but this does not work correctly - the overall gadget box increases, yet the labels never float more than within a 200 PX area. Is there anyway to change this simply in the code but adjusting a constant or scaler? Thanks!

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